Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal - Middle Easthttp://links.org.au/taxonomy/term/78/0
enThe threat of wider wars in the Middle East and the responsibilities of socialistshttp://links.org.au/qatar-gulf-states-diplomatic-crisis-threat-war-middle-east-responsibilities-socialists
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By <b>Frieda Afary</b><p>&nbsp;</p>
June 24, 2017 </span><span style="font-size: 11pt">— <a href="http://links.org.au"><i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i></a> reposted from <a href="http://www.allianceofmesocialists.org/threat-wider-wars-middle-east-responsibilities-socialists/">Alliance of Middle East Socialists</a> — On June fifth, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt suddenly cut off diplomatic and trade ties with Qatar and closed
their borders to it. The reason stated for this decision was Qatar’s
support for the Muslim Brotherhood movement as well as Qatar’s friendly
relations with the Iranian government. Donald Trump subsequently sent
out a tweet in which he took credit for this move: “So good to see the
Saudi Arabia visit with the king and 50 countries already paying off.”<p>&nbsp;</p>
Turkey immediately announced its support for Qatar and accelerated
legislation to send more troops to its military base in that
country. It also called on Saudi Arabia to end this crisis. The
Iranian government announced that its air space and land borders were
open to Qatar in order to prevent a blockade against it.
Subsequently, on June 11, the Iranian navy sent two battleships to
the coast of Oman.<p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/qatar-gulf-states-diplomatic-crisis-threat-war-middle-east-responsibilities-socialists">read more</a></p>IranMiddle EastQatarRussiaSyriaTurkeyUS imperialismFri, 23 Jun 2017 10:23:39 -0400fred5094 at http://links.org.auErdogan, the coup in Turkey and the global counter-revolutionhttp://links.org.au/erdogan-turkey-coup-global-counter-revolution
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By <b>Santiago Alba Rico</b>, translated from <i><a href="http://www.cuartopoder.es/tribuna/2016/07/24/erdogan-la-revolucion-mundial/8910">Cuarto Poder</a> </i>by <b>Sean Seymour-Jones</b><p>&nbsp;</p>
August 4, 2016 — <a href="http://links.org.au"><i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i></a> — What many of us feared on the night of July 15 has occurred in the most sombre way possible. If a victorious coup in Turkey would have been terrible, its failure looks set to be no less so. In barely a week, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has detained or purged more than 40,000 public officials: army officers, police, judges, teachers, and journalists. He has declared a state of emergency for three months - which can be extended indefinitely - and has suspended the European Convention of Human Rights, which could open the way – as the government has already insinuated - to the reestablishment of the death penalty and, in any case, normalise repression against all forms of opposition, particularly against the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BClen_movement">Gulenist</a> forces and the Kurds, who have once again, following the reinitiating of the military conflict a year ago, been converted into the “internal enemy”. In short, to stop or avenge a coup - real and manipulated - Erdogan and his party have at the same time carried out a coup. <p><a href="http://links.org.au/erdogan-turkey-coup-global-counter-revolution">read more</a></p>Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)Middle EastSaudi ArabiaSyriaTurkeyWed, 03 Aug 2016 23:55:17 -0400fred4781 at http://links.org.auSelahattin Demirtaş: 'How Turkish government endangers peace process with Kurds'http://links.org.au/node/4532
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</span><div align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt">For more on the <a href="/taxonomy/term/546" target="_blank"><b>struggle of the Kurdish people</b></a></span></span></span></span></span> </p></span></div><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p><b>Selahattin Demirtaş</b> (pictured) interviewed by <b>Ezgi Başaran</b></p><p>July 28, 2015 -- <a href="http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/hdp-co-chair-demirtas-reveals-details-of-peace-process-.aspx?pageID=238&amp;nID=86041&amp;NewsCatID=338" target="_blank"><i>Hurriyet Daily News</i></a>, posted at <a href="/node/4532" target="_blank"><i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i></a> -- The
government of Turkey’s refusal to provide legal guarantees for the Kurdistan Workers Party'(PKK), coupled with the construction of military fortresses,
effectively ended the ceasefire in Turkey, Peoples Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair <span id="ctl00_ctl01_ctl00_lblSpot">Selahattin Demirtaş (pictured) explained.</span></p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/4532">read more</a></p>KurdistanKurdistan Workers Party (PKK)KurdsMiddle EastPeople’s Democratic Party Turkey (HDP)TurkeyThu, 30 Jul 2015 06:57:12 -0400normd4532 at http://links.org.auThe revolutionaries of Bethnahrin: cooperation between Christians and Kurds http://links.org.au/node/4503
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<p>&nbsp;</p><center><img src="http://www.warscapes.com/sites/default/files/9nyuma8vkqrksywymwqiuvh3txor6ymhhkgrfalvhiq.jpg" class="media-image" width="588" height="406" /><p><i>Dawronoye's
television team visits the guerrillas. Beside Jacob Mirza (front row,
third from left) sits Sargon Adam, holding a machine gun. (Photo
courtesy Sargon Adam, August 1999).</i></p></center><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>By <b>Carl Drott </b></p><p>May 25, 2015 -- <a href="http://www.warscapes.com/reportage/revolutionaries-bethnahrin" target="_blank"><i>Warscapes</i></a>, posted at <a href="/node/4503" target="_blank"><i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i></a> with permission -- <i>This
article is primarily based on interviews conducted in Syria and Sweden
between August 2013 and January 2015. For the sake of simplicity, the
term &quot;Syriac&quot; is here employed to denote also those individuals or
communities identifying as Assyrians, Chaldeans, Arameans, Christian
Kurds or Christian Arabs.</i></p><p align="center">* * * </p><p>In northeastern Syria, “Christian
militias” (as they are often termed) are now battling the Islamic State
[also known as ISIS] alongside Kurdish forces. However, these groups did not simply emerge
spontaneously as a response to a security threat: they are the latest
incarnations of the Dawronoye movement, which first appeared on the
European and Middle Eastern political scenes 20 years ago. </p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/4503">read more</a></p>DawronoyeIraqKurdistanKurdistan Workers Party (PKK)KurdsMiddle EastreligionSyriaTurkeyFri, 10 Jul 2015 06:39:48 -0400normd4503 at http://links.org.auSyria: Arabs and Kurds fighting to rebuild a democratic and inclusive revolutionhttp://links.org.au/node/4501
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<p>July 8, 2015 -- <a href="https://rojavareport.wordpress.com/2015/07/08/interview-with-burkan-al-firat-commander-we-are-fighting-to-rebuild-a-democratic-and-inclusive-revolution/" target="_blank"><i>Rojava Report</i></a>, posted at <a href="/node/4501" target="_blank"><i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i></a> -- The following <a href="http://www.ozgur-gundem.com/haber/138467/suriyeye-girmek-turkiyeyi-asar" target="_blank">interview</a>
with Burkan al-Firat Command Center spokesperson <b>Şervan Dervîş</b> was
conducted by <b>Ersin Çaksu</b> for <i>Özgür Gündem</i>. </p><p>In the interview Dervîş
speaks about the recent victories won against ISIS [also known as Islamic State] in Rojava, the
current fighting in Aleppo and the larger trajectory of the Syrian civil war, as well as the role of Burkan al-Firat in rebuilding a
democratic and inclusive revolution. It has been translated into English
below.</p></span><div align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>* * * </p></span></div><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p><b>What is the Burkan al-Firat? Why was such an organisation created?</b></p>
<p>Burkan al-Firat is the creation of some groups within the Free
Syrian Army (FSA) and the YPG/YPJ [Peoples Protection Units/Women's Protection Units]. Its formation was announced on
September 10, 2014, five days before the beginning of the ISIS assault
on Kobanê. </p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/4501">read more</a></p>KurdistanKurdsMiddle EastSyriaThu, 09 Jul 2015 07:50:19 -0400normd4501 at http://links.org.au'US fuelled the rise of ISIS' conspiracy theories a back-handed attack on Syrian uprisinghttp://links.org.au/node/4492
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</span><div align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p><i>The graphic from </i><span style="font-size: 11pt"><i>Seamus Milne's article.</i></span></p></span></div><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>By <b>Michael Karadjis</b></p>
<p>June 8, 2015 -- <a href="https://mkaradjis.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><i>Syrian Revolution Commentary and Analysis</i></a>, submitted to <a href="/node/4492" target="_blank"><i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i></a> by the author -- In early June, journalist Seamus Milne penned a piece for the<i>
Guardian</i> entitled, &quot;Now the truth emerges how the US fuelled the rise of
Isis in Syria and Iraq&quot; (<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/03/us-isis-syria-iraq" target="_blank">http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/03/us-isis-syria-iraq</a>).</p>
<p>Of course, we all wait for “the truth”. The nickname “truth” has been
used by every kind of religious organisation for centuries – indeed
they all had opposing “truths”. Generations of Americans saw the
reflection of their own imperialist leaders in Superman fighting for
“truth, justice and the American way”. For decades Soviet citizens were
told their leaders spoke only “the truth” in a newspaper by that name.</p>
<p>Milne, in other words, is in good company.</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/4492">read more</a></p>JordanMichael KaradjisMiddle EastSyriaUS imperialismThu, 02 Jul 2015 21:15:57 -0400normd4492 at http://links.org.auSyria: Nusra’s massacre of Druze villagers condemnedhttp://links.org.au/node/4478
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<center><img src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03345/A_member_of_the_Dr_3345166b.jpg" height="247" width="387" /><p><i>Members of the Druze minority wave the Druze flag.</i></p></center>
<p>By <b>Michael Karadjis</b></p><p>June 15, 2015 -- <a href="https://mkaradjis.wordpress.com/2015/06/15/revolutionary-forces-throughout-syria-condemn-nusras-massacre-of-druze-villagers/" target="_blank"><i>Syrian Revolution Commentary and Analysis</i></a><i>, </i>submitted to<i> </i><i><a href="/node/4478" target="_blank">Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</a> </i>by the author -- The second week of June witnessed two major events concerning the
relationship between the Druze religious minority and the Syrian
revolution.</p>
<p>In northern Idlib province, where Druze have taken an active part in
the recent liberation of the capital and from the Assad regime and the
other <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhdTobHYw94&amp;feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">string of stunning rebel victories</a>,
a provocation against a Druze house by a unit of the Sunni-jihadist
group Jabhat al-Nusra – aligned to the main rebel groups in the province
– led to a massacre of over 20 Druze villagers.</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/4478">read more</a></p>Michael KaradjisMiddle EastSyriaWed, 24 Jun 2015 21:57:41 -0400normd4478 at http://links.org.auDiscussion: Michael Cooke on the left and fundamentalistshttp://links.org.au/node/4460
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">By </span><b><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Michael
Cooke</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"></span></b></p>
<blockquote><i>For the record then, I have no patience with
the position that &quot;we&quot; should only or mainly be concerned with what is &quot;ours’&quot; any more than I can condone reactions to such a view that require Arabs to read
Arab books, use Arab methods and the like. As C.L.R James used to say,
Beethoven belongs as much to the West as he does to Germans, since his music is
now part of the human heritage.</i></p>
<p><i>Partly
because of empire, all cultures are involved in one another; none is single and
pure, all are hybrid, heterogeneous, extraordinary, differentiated, and
unmonolithic. This I believe, is as true of the contemporary Untied States </i>[or Australia]<i> as it is of the modern Arab world …</i>
Edward Said<a href="#_ftn1" title="_ftnref1" name="_ftnref1"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="vertical-align: baseline"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">[1]</span></span></span></span></span></a></p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/4460">read more</a></p>AustraliaMiddle EastracismreligionThu, 11 Jun 2015 07:35:36 -0400normd4460 at http://links.org.auSyria: Rojava offers a way forwardhttp://links.org.au/node/4428
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<i>Kurdish fighters in Rojava. </i></div>
</span></span><div align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt">[For more on the <a href="/taxonomy/term/546" target="_blank"><b>struggle of the Kurdish people, click HERE</b></a>.]</span></span></span> </p></span></span></div><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>By <b><span class="glwnews-article-location">Tony Iltis</span> </b></p><p>May 9, 2015 -- <a href="https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/58996" target="_blank"><i>Green Left Weekly</i></a>, posted at<i> <a href="/node/4428" target="_blank">Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</a></i> -- War planes from the US and its allies bombed the village of Birmehli
in northern Syria on the night of April‭ ‬30.‭ ‬US Central Command
spokesperson Major Curtis Kellogg claimed that at least‭ ‬50‭ ‬fighters
from the self-styled Islamic State‭ (‬IS‭) ‬group were killed and there
was‭ “‬no indication that any civilians were killed‭”‬.</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/4428">read more</a></p>Democratic Union Party (Syria)KurdistanKurdsMiddle EastSyriaSun, 17 May 2015 22:40:15 -0400normd4428 at http://links.org.auSouth Africa: SRCs of five more universities join academic boycott of Israelhttp://links.org.au/node/4408
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<p style="font-size: 11pt" align="center"><i>South Africans campaign against apartheid Israel. </i></p><p style="font-size: 11pt" align="center">Click <a href="/taxonomy/term/564" target="_blank"><b>HERE for more on BDS</b></a> </p><p style="font-size: 11pt">May 4, 2015 -- <a href="http://t.ymlp204.net/qshjaxaesuwqafauearajwjwu/click.php" target="_blank">BDS South Africa</a>, posted at <a href="/node/4408" target="_blank"><i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i></a> -- We gather here today as the Student Representative Council (SRC) presidents of five of South African universities, namely: University of South Africa, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Durban University of Technology, Mangasutho University of Technology and the University of the Western Cape. This day will go down in history as we announce the resolutions adopted by our University Student Representative Councils to join the academic and cultural boycott of Israel.
</p><p style="font-size: 11pt">Today we follow the mandate provided in 2011 by the South African Union of Students (which represents all SRCs in the country) which urged &quot;all SRCs, student groups and other youth structures to strategise and implement a boycott of Israel”. SAUS declared in August 2011 that “all South African campuses must be Apartheid-Israel free zones”. </p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/4408">read more</a></p>BDSIsraelMiddle EastPalestineracismSACPSouth AfricastudentsZionismMon, 04 May 2015 22:08:46 -0400normd4408 at http://links.org.auDevotion and resistance: Bizhan Jazani and the Iranian Fedaiihttp://links.org.au/node/4397
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<div align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p><i>Historian Doug Enaa Greene's lecture on the Iranian Marxist theorist Bizhan Jazani, presented to the Center for Marxist Education see <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CenterForMarxistEducation" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/CenterForMarxistEducation</a></i></p></span></div><span style="font-size: 11pt">
<p>By <b><span style="font-size: 11pt">Doug Enaa Greene</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'" lang="EN-US">April 30, 2015 -- <a href="/node/4397" target="_blank"><i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i></a> -- The popular image of the Iranian Revolution in the United States focuses
on a series of stereotypical bearded mullahs, an exotic and backward oriental
society, and of course the seizure of the US embassy by frenzied masses. While
it is true that the current government of Iran is a theocratic Islamic state
that hijacked the revolution that brought down the US-backed Shah. There is
another story, of brave and dedicated communist revolutionaries who sought the
liberation of their people from capitalism, imperialism and the establishment
of a revolutionary socialist state. Communists like the brilliant Bizhan
Jazani, who thought seriously and sincerely about how to make a revolution in
Iran. </span></p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/4397">read more</a></p>Doug Enaa GreenehistoryIranMiddle EastmultimediaTudeh PartyvideoTue, 28 Apr 2015 08:12:47 -0400normd4397 at http://links.org.auSaudi Arabia’s lesser known exports after oil: Wahhabism and pro-imperialismhttp://links.org.au/node/4389
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<center><img src="http://washingtonnote.com/twn_up_fls/King%20Abdullah%20Barack%20Obama.jpg" /><p><i>US President Barack Obama fetes the late King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.</i></p></center><p>By <b>Rupen Savoulian</b></p><p>April 19, 2015 -- <a href="https://rupensavoulian.wordpress.com/2015/04/19/saudi-arabias-best-known-export-is-oil-but-the-export-of-its-ideology-is-just-as-important/" target="_blank"><i>Antipodean Atheist</i></a>, posted at <a href="/node/4389" target="_blank"><i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i> </a>with author's permission -- Saudi Arabia’s aerial offensive against Yemen has continued for the fourth week at the time of writing. <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/04/saudi-led-coalition-steps-strikes-yemeni-capital-150411014545407.html" target="_blank">Yemen is undergoing a humanitarian crisis</a>,
with millions of Yemenis lacking basic access to food, clean drinking
water and health care. The Saudi bombardment has only worsened the
plight of the Yemenis, with schools destroyed, hospitals and health-care
facilities targeted, and electricity supplies cut off. <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/203929/war-escalates-yemen-risks-disintegration-no-end-sight" target="_blank">Basic infrastructure is being shattered</a>, thus precipitating a catastrophic health situation for Yemeni residents.</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/4389">read more</a></p>IranMiddle EastoilreligionSaudi ArabiaUS imperialismWorld War IYemenTue, 21 Apr 2015 08:22:58 -0400normd4389 at http://links.org.auMiddle East: Saudi Arabia's US-backed war on Yemenhttp://links.org.au/node/4384
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<p>By <b>Tony Iltis</b></p><p>April 13, 2015 -- <a href="https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/58739" target="_blank"><i>Green Left Weekly</i></a>, posted at <a href="/node/4384" target="_blank"><i>Links International Joural of Socialist Renewal</i></a> -- The United States is providing crucial support to regional ally Saudi
Arabia ― a big buyer of US arms ― as it launches a new war in the
Middle East by attacking neighbouring Yemen. A Saudi-led coalition of Western-aligned, mainly Sunni Islamist, Arab
government's launched air, naval and ground military offensive against
Yemen on March 25.
</p><p>Saudi Arabian forces are being supported by military planes from the
United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, Morocco, Sudan and
Egypt, which is also supplying naval forces. The military intervention is in support of Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi,
the Yemen president overthrown in January by a coalition led by Ansar
Allah, also known as the Houthi movement. Ansar Allah is an armed
movement based in the Zaydi religious minority, who are about 35% of
Yemen's population.</p>
<p>The Saudi intervention has accelerated the civil war engulfing Yemen.</p>
<p>The World Health Organisation said on April 8 that at least 643
people had been killed and 2226 injured in Yemen between March 19 and
April 6. The WHO said: “These are only health facility-based figures and
casualty estimates are likely to continue to increase as additional
cases are verified and reported.”</p>
<p>More than 334,000 people have been internally displaced and 254,400 have fled abroad.</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/4384">read more</a></p>Middle EastSaudi ArabiaUS imperialismwar on terrorYemenSun, 19 Apr 2015 03:43:34 -0400normd4384 at http://links.org.auKurdish liberation movement committed to ‘democratic socialism for the 21st century’http://links.org.au/node/4369
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</span><div align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt">[For more on the <a href="/taxonomy/term/546" target="_blank"><b>struggle of the Kurdish people, click HERE</b></a>.]</span></span> </p></span></div><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'" lang="EN-GB">Meral Cicek</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'" lang="EN-GB"> interviewed by the <span><a href="http://www.rosalux.de/english/foundation.html" target="_blank">Rosa Luxemburg Foundation</a>’s<b> Florian Wilde</b></span> during the World
Social Forum in Tunis, translated by <b>Leandros Fischer</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'" lang="EN-GB">April 9, 2015 – <a href="/node/4369" target="_blank"><i>Links International
Journal of Socialist Renewal</i></a> -- <b>Meral Cicek</b> </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'" lang="EN-GB">(above) </span></span>is from Cologne and is the
chair of Kürt Kadın İlişkiler Merkezi, the Kurdish Centre for Women´s Affairs
in Erbil.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal" align="center">* * * </p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/4369">read more</a></p>KurdistanKurdsMiddle EastsocialismSyriaWed, 08 Apr 2015 22:34:30 -0400normd4369 at http://links.org.auAdam Hanieh: Power, wealth and inequality in the Arab worldhttp://links.org.au/node/4348
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</span><div align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p><span style="font-size: 11pt">[For more articles by or about <a href="/taxonomy/term/663" target="_blank"><b>Adam Hanieh, click HERE</b></a>.]</span> </p></span></div><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>By <b>Adam Hanieh</b></p><p>March 1, 2015 -- <a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/articles/guest-writers/17248-fundamental-rifts-power-wealth-and-inequality-in-the-arab-world" target="_blank"><i>Middle East Monitor</i></a>, posted at <a href="/node/4348" target="_blank"><i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i></a> -- Over four years since mass uprisings ousted sclerotic regimes in
Tunisia and Egypt it can seem that the initial hopes represented by
these movements lie in tatters. Libya, Syria, Yemen and Iraq remain
mired in bloody armed conflicts that have led to the deaths of hundreds
of thousands and displaced millions more within and across borders. </p><p>In
the pivotal case of Egypt, military rule has returned through the
violent crushing of protests, the arrests of an estimated 40,000 people
and the rebuilding of the repressive structures of the Hosni Mubarak era.
Elsewhere, autocratic governments look more secure in their rule today
than they have for many years.
</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/4348">read more</a></p>Adam HaniehAfricaBahrainEgyptIraqJordanLibyaMiddle EastMoroccoQatarSaudi ArabiaSyriaTunisiaUAEWed, 25 Mar 2015 21:31:25 -0400normd4348 at http://links.org.auThe Syrian war, Israel, Hezbollah and the US-Iran romance: is Israel changing its view on the war?http://links.org.au/node/4346
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<center><img src="https://7ee6an.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/assad-forces-in-homs-aftert-destruction.jpg" height="318" width="448" /></center></span><div align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p><i>Assad government forces enter a section of Homs after the government destroyed it with artillery and air attacks.
</i></p></span></div><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>By <b>Michael Karadjis</b></p>
<p>February 24, 2015 -- <a href="https://mkaradjis.wordpress.com/2015/02/24/the-syrian-war-israel-hezbollah-and-the-us-iran-romance-is-israel-changing-its-view-on-the-war/" target="_blank"><i>Syrian Revolution Analysis and Commentary</i></a>, submitted to <a href="/node/4346" target="_blank"><i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i></a> by the author -- In recent months, Israeli occupation forces in Syria’s Golan Heights
have launched a number of attacks on either Syrian regime or allied
Hezbollah military forces in the region, adding to a more sporadic
stream of attacks since mid-2013.</p>
<p>Given that countless Israeli politicians, military leaders,
intelligence officials and other strategists and spokespeople have
continually stressed, since the onset of the Syrian conflict, that they
saw the maintenance of the regime of Bashar Assad as preferable to any
of the alternatives on offer – as I have documented in great detail at <a href="https://mkaradjis.wordpress.com/2014/01/03/israel-and-the-syrian-war/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://mkaradjis.wordpress.com/2014/01/03/israel-and-the-syrian-war/</a>
– the recent spate of Israeli attacks raises the question of whether
Israel has changed its position and now favours the defeat of Assad.</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/4346">read more</a></p>HezbollahIranIsraelMichael KaradjisMiddle EastPalestineSyriaUS imperialismTue, 24 Mar 2015 07:52:36 -0400normd4346 at http://links.org.auKurdistan: Why Kobanî did not fallhttp://links.org.au/node/4271
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<p style="font-size: 11pt" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt">[For more on the <a href="/taxonomy/term/546" target="_blank"><b>struggle of the Kurdish people, click HERE</b></a>.]</span> </p><p style="font-size: 11pt">By <b>Dilar Dirik</b>
</p><p style="font-size: 11pt">January 27, 2015 -- <a href="http://www.kurdishquestion.com/index.php/kurdistan/west-kurdistan/why-kobani-did-not-fall.html" target="_blank"><i>Kurdish Question</i></a>, posted at <a href="/node/4271" target="_blank"><i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i> </a>-- One year ago, today, Kobanî declared itself as an autonomous canton.
</p><p style="font-size: 11pt">Today, after 135 days of fearless resistance, the people of Kobanî have liberated the city from the so-called Islamic State (ISIS). Since September 2014, the YPG and YPJ (People's and Women's Defence Units) have been leading – there are no other words to describe it -- an epic and unbelievable resistance against the latest wave of attacks by ISIS.
</p><p style="font-size: 11pt">The women and men, who lead the most glorious resistance of our time, hoisted their flags on the last hills that were occupied by ISIS and immediately began their line dances, accompanied by old Kurdish revolutionary songs and slogans. Ever since, people around the world rushed to the streets to celebrate. After the countless tragedies, massacres and traumas that this region has had to suffer recently, the pains that have preceded this moment make victory even sweeter. One eye sheds tears for the dead, while the other cries out of much deserved joy.
</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/4271">read more</a></p>Democratic Union Party (Syria)IraqKurdistanKurdistan Workers Party (PKK)KurdsMiddle EastSyriaTurkeyUS imperialismWed, 28 Jan 2015 20:45:47 -0500normd4271 at http://links.org.auUnfolding revolution in Rojava: Interview with Özgür Amed, journalist and researcherhttp://links.org.au/node/4252
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<center><p><i>&quot;We can say that Kurdish women led the Rojava
revolution. Women have a part in every decision taken in Rojava. The colour of
the Rojava revolution is the colour of women.&quot;</i> </p></center><center><p>[For more on the <a href="/taxonomy/term/546" target="_blank"><b>struggle of the Kurdish people, click HERE</b></a>.]</p></center> <p><b>Özgür Amed</b> interviewed by <b>Dylan Murphy</b></p>
<p>January
17, 2015 – <a href="/node/4252" target="_blank"><i>Links international Journal of
Socialist Renewal</i></a> -- The following interview was conducted in partnership between
the <a href="https://rojavareport.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><i>Rojava Report</i></a>. <b>Özgür Amed</b><span> is a journalist, columnist, teacher and
activist from Diyarbakir, where he gives courses on cinema and works with local
civil society organisations as a project coordinator. </span></p><p>He writes regular
editorials for the newspapers <i>Ozgur
Gundem</i> and <i>Ozgur Politika</i>,
contributes to various journals, assists foreign journalists working in
Kurdistan and provides analysis of the region to foreign media outlets. He also
conducts research on the Kurdish movement and its author of a book of humour, <i>Works of Kurdology</i> (<i>Kürdocul İşler</i>). He
can be reached at <span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:ozguramed@live.com"><span style="font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: windowtext">ozguramed@live.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'" lang="EN-GB"></span></p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/4252">read more</a></p>Democratic Union Party (Syria)internationalismIraqKurdistanKurdsMiddle EastSyriaTurkeywomenSat, 17 Jan 2015 00:14:17 -0500normd4252 at http://links.org.auHas the International Monetary Fund reformed?http://links.org.au/node/4217
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</span><div align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt">Click for more by <a href="/taxonomy/term/661" target="_blank"><b>Patrick Bond</b></a>.</span></span> </p></span></div><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>By <b>Patrick Bond</b>, Durban</p><p>December 22, 2014 -- <a href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/" target="_blank">TeleSUR English</a>, submitted to <a href="/node/4217" target="_blank"><i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i></a> by the author -- In a <i><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/12/17/the-imfs-perestroika-moment/" target="_blank">Washington Post</a></i> op-ed on December 17, 2014, &quot;<a href="http://triplecrisis.com/the-imfs-perestroika-moment-2-2/" target="_blank">The IMF's Perestroika Moment</a>&quot;,
Boston University political economists Cornel Ban and Kevin Gallagher
suggested &quot;conventional wisdom&quot; about the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is
&quot;outdated&quot; because the IMF is no longer &quot;a global agent of economic
orthodoxy&quot;. Hmmm.</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/4217">read more</a></p>BRICSeconomicsIMFMiddle EastPatrick BondSouth AfricaTunisiaFri, 26 Dec 2014 22:31:24 -0500normd4217 at http://links.org.auMatzpen: Revolutionary anti-Zionism in Israelhttp://links.org.au/node/4213
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<div align="center"><p style="font-size: 11pt"><i><b>Doug Enaa Greene'</b>s article below was based on his lecture on the history and
perspectives of the Israeli Socialist Oranization (Matzpen), presented to the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CenterForMarxistEducation" target="_blank">Center for Marxist Education</a>.</i></p></div><p align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt">For more by <a href="/taxonomy/term/878" target="_blank"><b>Doug Enaa Greene, click HERE</b></a>.</span></p><p style="font-size: 11pt">By <b>Doug Enaa Greene</b></p><p style="font-size: 11pt">December 23,
2014 – <a href="/node/4213" target="_blank"><i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i></a> -- Shortly after
the June 1967 war, revolutionary socialists, both Jewish and Palestinian,
published a joint statement denouncing the war and calling for an end to
Zionism. The Jewish socialists were perceived as traitors by Israeli society.
In reply, the Jewish socialists published the following reply:</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/4213">read more</a></p>Communist Party of IsraelDoug Enaa GreenehistoryIsraelMatzpen (Israel)Middle Eastmultimedianational questionPalestinevideoZionismTue, 23 Dec 2014 00:58:37 -0500normd4213 at http://links.org.auRojava: Syria's secret revolution (BBC Our World) http://links.org.au/node/4169
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<p style="font-size: 11pt" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt">[For more on the <a href="/taxonomy/term/546" target="_blank"><b>struggle of the Kurdish people, click HERE</b></a>.]</span></span></span></span> </p><p style="font-size: 11pt">November 14, 2014 -- BBC -- Is the Middle East’s newest country a territory called “Rojava”? Out of the chaos of Syria’s civil war, mainly Kurdish leftists have forged an egalitarian, multi-ethnic mini-state run on communal lines.
</p><p style="font-size: 11pt">But with ISIS jihadists attacking them at every opportunity — especially around the beleaguered city of Kobane, how long can this idealistic social experiment last? From the frontlines to the refugee camps, Mehran Bozorgnia filmed in Rojava for the BBC's <i>Our World</i> and has gained exclusive access and a revealing snapshot of Syria’s secret revolution.
</p><p style="font-size: 11pt">COPYRIGHT: Mehran Bozorgnia / Bozorgnia Films / 2014</p>Democratic Union Party (Syria)KurdistanKurdistan Workers Party (PKK)KurdsMiddle EastmultimediaSyriavideoWed, 26 Nov 2014 05:48:24 -0500normd4169 at http://links.org.auThe Rojava revolution's radical democracyhttp://links.org.au/node/4150
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<div style="text-align: center"><img src="http://tenk.cc/wp-content/themes/editorial/functions/thumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/Salih-Muslim-Portrait-1024x682.jpg&amp;w=606&amp;h=0&amp;zc=1&amp;q=90" class="woo-image" height="293" width="441" /></div></span><div align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt">[For more on the <a href="/taxonomy/term/546" target="_blank"><b>struggle of the Kurdish people, click HERE</b></a>.]</span></span></span></span> </p></span></div><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>November 10, 2014 -- <a href="http://tenk.cc/2014/11/a-revolution-of-life/" target="_blank"><i>Tenk</i></a>, posted at <a href="/node/4150" target="_blank"><i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i></a> -- <b>Saleh Muslim Mohamed</b> (pictured),
co-president of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) representing the
independent communities of Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan) and its armed
wings, the People’s Defence Units (YPG) and Women’s Defence Units (YPJ),
visited the Netherlands. Muslim spoke about the fight of Rojava against
the Islamic State (ISIS) and the development of democratic autonomy
during the Rojava revolution. <b>Jonas Staal</b> interviewed him
afterwards.</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/4150">read more</a></p>Democratic Union Party (Syria)KurdistanKurdistan Workers Party (PKK)KurdsMiddle EastSyriawomenWed, 12 Nov 2014 20:24:41 -0500normd4150 at http://links.org.auSyria: As Nusra plays at ISIS-lite, the US excels as Assad’s airforcehttp://links.org.au/node/4140
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</span><div align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p><span style="font-size: 11pt">For more on <a href="/taxonomy/term/314" target="_blank"><b>Syria, click HERE</b></a>.</span></p></span></div><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>By <b>Michael Karadjis</b></p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/4140">read more</a></p>Michael KaradjisMiddle EastSyriaUS imperialismSun, 09 Nov 2014 20:27:25 -0500normd4140 at http://links.org.auCritique of Patrick Cockburn’s ‘Whose side is Turkey on?’http://links.org.au/node/4132
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<img src="http://turkeyetc.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/fsa-fillion.jpg?w=580&amp;h=386" height="273" width="411" /><p><i>Fighters of the Free Syrian Army</i></p></center>
</span><div align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>For more on <a href="/taxonomy/term/314" target="_blank"><b>Syria, click HERE</b></a>. </p></span></div><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>By <b>Michael Karadjis</b></p>
<p>October 31, 2014 -- <a href="http://mkaradjis.wordpress.com/2014/10/31/critique-of-patrick-cockburns-whose-side-is-turkey-on/" target="_blank"><i>Syrian Revolution Commentary and Analysis</i></a><i>, </i>submitted to <a href="/node/4132" target="_blank"><i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i></a> by the author <i>-- </i>The November 6 <i>London Review of Books</i> has published Patrick Cockburn’s latest article (<a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n21/patrick-cockburn/whose-side-is-turkey-on" target="_blank">http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n21/patrick-cockburn/whose-side-is-turkey-on</a>),
‘Whose side is Turkey On?’. Now, as I support the struggle of the
Syrian Kurds, led by the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its armed militia, the YPG, against
ISIS’ genocidal siege, I have no interest in defending Turkey’s shabby
role in this, even if I think both the US and Turkey, in their current
difference on this issue are both being totally cynical in their
different ways. So this critique will not deal with these issues.</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/4132">read more</a></p>Democratic Union Party (Syria)IranKurdistanKurdistan Workers Party (PKK)KurdsMichael KaradjisMiddle EastSyriaTurkeyUS imperialismSun, 02 Nov 2014 21:03:49 -0500normd4132 at http://links.org.auRojava’s autonomous cantons: What a revolution looks likehttp://links.org.au/node/4129
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</span><div align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p><i><span style="font-size: 11pt">&quot;A YPJ fighter (right) next to a very similar
picture of a female fighter in the Spanish revolution in the 1930s. The
comparison is apt. The presence of such a high proportion of female
front line fighters is evidence of a profound social transformation that
has been happening in liberated Rojava and within the
Kurdish revolutionary movement.&quot;</span> </i></p></span></div><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>By <b>Tony Iltis</b></p><p>November 1, 2014 -- <a href="/node/4129" target="_blank"><i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i></a> -- On November 1, protests were held worldwide in solidarity with Kobanê.
Protests took place in most countries on every continent. Even in
Afghanistan, protests were organised in six cities by left-wing
anti-occupation groups. </p><p>After withstanding
more than six weeks of intense siege by the terrorist group that calls
itself “Islamic State” (IS), Kobanê (also called Kobani), a small majority-Kurdish town on
the Syrian side of the border with Turkey, has become one of the most
well-known places on the planet.</p><p>The defenders of Kobanê mostly
belong to the Syrian-Kurdish militias, the Peoples Defence Units (YPG)
and Womens Defence Units (YPJ). The YPG has both male and female
fighters. The YPJ is, as its name suggests, all female. Despite having
held three cantons in Rojava as liberated zones since July 2012, until
recently these militias were as obscure as Kobanê itself. </p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/4129">read more</a></p>Democratic Union Party (Syria)KurdistanKurdistan Workers Party (PKK)KurdsMiddle EastSyriaTurkeyUS imperialismwomenSun, 02 Nov 2014 00:34:03 -0400normd4129 at http://links.org.auEmerging Kurdistan: socialist or capitalist? http://links.org.au/node/4112
<center><img src="http://www.kurdishquestion.com/media/k2/items/cache/f7abac252ae5ed68121b92ba7a669d87_XL.jpg" height="361" width="626" /><p style="font-size: 11pt"><i>&quot;The latest developments in the Middle East have had Western
specialists-strategists-analysts playing with their pencils, rulers and
compasses, doodling all over their maps of the Middle East.&quot;</i></p></center>
<p style="font-size: 11pt">By <b>Giran Ozcan</b></p>
<p style="font-size: 11pt">October 2014 -- <a href="http://www.kurdishquestion.com/insight-research/analysis/emerging-kurdistan-socialist-or-capitalist/147-emerging-kurdistan-socialist-or-capitalist.html" target="_blank"><i>Kurdish Question</i></a>, posted at <a href="/node/4112" target="_blank"><i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i></a> -- The last decade has seen many maps published by &quot;think tanks&quot; and/or &quot;intelligence organisations&quot; in which the Middle East gives birth to &quot;new nations/states&quot;. The latest developments in the Middle East have had Western specialists-strategists-analysts playing with their pencils, rulers and compasses, doodling all over their maps of the Middle East; once again hoping to carve up the region to best fit the interests of their imperial masters.
</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/4112">read more</a></p>IranIraqKurdistanKurdistan Workers Party (PKK)KurdsMiddle EastSyriaTurkeyWed, 22 Oct 2014 22:19:31 -0400normd4112 at http://links.org.au What kind of Kurdistan for women? (+ video)http://links.org.au/node/4109
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<span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>By <b>Dilar Dirik</b></p><p>October 20, 2014 -- <a href="http://kurdishquestion.com/woman/what-kind-of-kurdistan-for-women.html" target="_blank"><i>Kurdish Question</i></a>, posted at <i><a href="/node/4109" target="_blank">Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</a> </i>-- &quot;Azadî&quot;, freedom. A notion that has captured the
collective imagination of the Kurdish people for a long time. &quot;Free
Kurdistan&quot;, the seemingly unattainable ideal, has many shapes, depending
on where one situates oneself in the broad spectrum of Kurdish
politics. The increasing independence of the Kurdistan Regional
Government (KRG) in South Kurdistan (Bashur) from the central Iraqi
government, as well as the immense gains of the Kurdish people in West
Kurdistan (Rojava) in spite of the Syrian civil war over the last year,
have revived the dream of a free life as Kurds in Kurdistan.</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/4109">read more</a></p>IranIraqKurdistanKurdistan Workers Party (PKK)KurdsMiddle EastmultimediaSyriaTurkeyvideowomenSun, 19 Oct 2014 22:41:17 -0400normd4109 at http://links.org.auMalalai Joya: 'Fiery salutations to the brave women of Kobane'http://links.org.au/node/4101
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</span><div align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt">[For more on the <a href="/taxonomy/term/546" target="_blank"><b>struggle of the Kurdish people, click HERE</b></a>.]</span></span> </p></span></div><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>By <b>Malalai Joya</b>, Afghanistan
</p><p>October 12, 2014 -- <a href="http://www.malalaijoya.com/dcmj/english/45-dcmjreportsstatements/828-fiery-salutations-to-the-brave-women-of-koubani.html" target="_blank">Defense Committee for Malalai Joya</a>, posted at <a href="/node/4101" target="_blank"><i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i></a> -- These
days the bravery and resilience of the women of Kobane has amazed
people around the world. To defend their soil from the criminal ISIS
murderers, they are neither looking at the US and NATO’s support, nor
appoint the West and the US to defend their homeland from terrorists and
foreigners, like a handful of mercenary analysts in Afghanistan. The
noble men and women of Kobane selflessly defend their honour, freedom,
and homeland with their own hands and have accepted to make all kinds of
sacrifices for this purpose.
</p><p>Heroines of Kobane,</p><p>I
deeply support your inspiring resistance against the criminals of ISIS
and humbly learn from your patriotism and pride. You are the
unconquerable pinnacle of honour and courage. You have turned to symbols
of humanity and freedom-fighting by your unrelenting fight against these
ignorant criminals.</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/4101">read more</a></p>AfghanistanIraqKurdistanKurdsMiddle EastSyriawomenWed, 15 Oct 2014 03:10:06 -0400normd4101 at http://links.org.auKurdish leader: 'We are the only humanist shield against barbarity'http://links.org.au/node/4099
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<center><img src="http://www.humanite.fr/sites/default/files/medias/2014/10/33082.hr_.jpg" height="369" width="546" /><p><i>Gharib Hassou.</i></p></center>
<center>[For more on the <a href="/taxonomy/term/546" target="_blank"><b>struggle of the Kurdish people, click HERE</b></a>.]</center><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>October 6, 2014 -- <a href="/node/4099" target="_blank"><i>Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</i></a> -- <b>Gharib Hassou</b> is representative in Iraqi Kurdistan
of the Syria-based <span lang="EN-US">Democratic Union Party (<i>Partiya Yekitîya Demokrat</i>, PYD)</span>, the main force of Kurdish resistance in Syria. He is interviewed by <b>Stéphane Aubouard</b> in Erbil for the French left-wing newspaper <i><a href="http://www.humanite.fr/nous-sommes-lunique-bouclier-humaniste-face-la-barbarie-553748" target="_blank">l’Humanité</a>.</i> Translated by <b>Isabelle Métral</b>. (Note: DAESH is also know as &quot;Islamic State&quot; (IS) or ISIS).</p></span><center><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>* * * </p></span></center><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p><b>Why is the conquest of Kobane so important for DAESH?</b></p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/4099">read more</a></p>Democratic Union Party (Syria)KurdistanKurdsMiddle EastSyriaTurkeyMon, 13 Oct 2014 21:47:34 -0400normd4099 at http://links.org.auAdam Hanieh: Gulf states, neoliberalism and liberation in the Middle Easthttp://links.org.au/node/4095
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<div style="text-align: center"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/seeingthings/463684899/in/photolist-GYvne-ejtWNE-9chpdq-boKF6W-dZrJ7p-7ctKv5-bHvXUp-7rRAWX-5QKER1-4cmWsD-8qoEW-eD7Prg-br6H1s-dFtWJs-e3YQ73-fizmU2-4dLGxw-4cmVuX-73Nyyw-biwmxR-9BmV8H-aXDHcz-4Q8kcq-mXYfXZ-nJA44Y-eg6TMk-4dQAV4-92nGkq-7gCF4y-dYXDTJ-bjG3ap-9BmA2i-5Cy5rp-2kZGid-dHVm6y-dApKNK-ezJZGj-bGCASz-kDe1Se-k6sZ9D-9adiPS-9imdra-9hMsGm-cctFXw-dv131g-5RrzMf-5Qpopz-2mwFc-7y382n-5SrCmQ" class="image_link"><img src="http://rs21testblog.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/463684899_dc9b4bfbb6_o.jpg?w=1112" class="size-full wp-image-4168" title="Dubai metropolis photographed by Mohamed Somji, flic.kr/p/GYvne" width="460" height="290" /></a></div>
</span><div align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p><i>Photograph of Dubai metropolis by Mohamed Somji, <a href="http://flic.kr/p/GYvne" target="_blank">flic.kr/p/GYvne</a>.</i></p></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>[For more articles by or about <a href="/taxonomy/term/663" target="_blank"><b>Adam Hanieh, click HERE</b></a>.]</p></span></div><span style="font-size: 11pt"><p>October 6, 2014 -- <a href="http://rs21.org.uk/2014/10/06/adam-hanieh-on-the-gulf-states-neoliberalism-and-liberation-in-the-middle-east/" target="_blank">rs21</a> -- <b>Adam Hanieh</b> is a senior lecturer at and School of
Oriental and African Studies in London and author of <a href="/node/3762" target="_blank"><i>Lineages of Revolt: Issues of
Contemporary Capitalism in the Middle East</i></a>. He spoke to <b>Bill Crane
</b>about his book and on the trajectories of the Arab revolutions since
2011.</p><p><a href="http://links.org.au/node/4095">read more</a></p>Adam HaniehBahraincapitalismEgyptKuwaitMiddle EastOmanPalestineQatarSaudi ArabiaSyriaTunisiaUAEUS imperialismThu, 09 Oct 2014 22:01:24 -0400normd4095 at http://links.org.au